Historians once believed human beings created dogs by catching wolf pups and breeding the tamest ones together, but that would have been risky business. Wolves don’t tame easily, and it would have ...

Smokey Bear. Ham the Space Chimp. Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling. Not many animals reach celebrity status, but it’s a bit of a tradition here at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. In January, we rolled out ...

On Friday, Lake Superior Zoo announced that there will be free admission to all children ages 12 and under for the rest of ...

Parrots, hawks, owls, crocodiles, snakes and other animals displaced by Hurricane Melissa have found a home at the Hope Zoo ...

A UCLA campus shutdown during COVID revealed rapid evolution in urban birds, as junco beaks shifted with the rise and fall of ...

Dogs are not the problem; they are the symptom of a society that mistakes sentiment for solidarity. Compassion, like justice, has a caste: selective, performative, partial ...

Folks at Angels of Assisi want to make sure adopting a pet is a well thought out, planned and researched decision to avoid ...

Robert Berndt, who moved to Philadelphia seven years ago, was part of an online chat group that discussed, shared, and ...

If economic and technological transformations have changed our relationship with literature before, they could do so again.

Georgie Purcell is no stranger to controversy. Since erupting onto the political scene at the 2022 election at just 30 years ...

Researchers say bisphenols, PFAS and flame retardants can still be present in some food packaging, and highly processed foods are contaminated by plastic chemicals on their route from a factory to a ...

Since we can’t talk to them, most folks' knowledge of animals begins and ends with some biology classes and maybe a pet, ...